Confession of FAITH Containing the Substance Of all the Fundamental ARTICLES IN THE Larger Confession, put fort〈…〉 the Elders of the Bapti〈…〉 Churches, Owning Personal Electio〈…〉 Final Perseverance.Acts 24. 14. After the way 〈…〉 Heresy, so worship we the Go〈…〉 thers, believing all things wh〈…〉 in the Law and the Prophets 〈…〉LONDON▪ Printed in the 〈…〉Title page of A short confession of faith, London, 1697

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A short confession of faith

Name: A short confession of faith
Author: Benjamin Keach

A short confession of faith containing the substance of all the fundamental articles in the larger confession put forth by the elders of the Baptist churches, owning personal election and final perseverance.A short confession of faith containing the substance of all the fundamental articles in the larger confession put forth by the elders of the Baptist churches, owning personal election and final perserverance.

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London : s.n., 1697?

[7], 40 p. · 6.6k words · Wing K86 · ESTC R24038

Title page typeset from the transcription.

The Articles of Faith of the Church of Christ meeting at Horsley-Down. › Of the New and Second Covenant.

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

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Of the New and Second Covenant.

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XXXI. WE believe the Covenant of Grace was primarily made with the second ¹Adam, and in him with all the Elect, who as God-man, or Mediator, was set up from everlasting as a Common Person, or as their ²Head and Representative; who freely obliged or engaged himself to the Father for them, perfectly to keep the whole Law in their Nature that had sinned, and to ³satisfy Divine Justice by bearing their Sins upon his own Body, i. e. the Guilt of all their Sins, which were laid upon him: and that he ⁴sustained that Wrath and Curse in his Body and Soul, that was due ⁵to them for all their Transgressions: and having received their discharge ⁶from Wrath and Condemnation, he gives it out to all that believe in him, and obtain Union ⁷with him, who are thereby brought actually into the said New Covenant, ⟨p. 32⟩and have a personal Right to all the Blessings thereof.

XXXI. WE believe the Covenant of Grace was primarily made with the second

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704

Place

London

Year

1697

Imprint

London : [s.n., 1697?]

Size

[7], 40 p.

Words

6,607

Catalogue

Wing K86 · ESTC R24038

Text

EEBO-TCP A47606

Passages

121

Sections

Title page

A short confession of faith

Of the New and Second Covenant.

Of Election.

Of final Perseverance.

Of the Resurrection.

Of Eternal Judgment.

Of Marriages.

Of Civil Magistrates.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of the New and Second Covenant.

Of Election.

Of final Perseverance.

Of the Resurrection.

Of Eternal Judgment.

Of Marriages.

Of Civil Magistrates.